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The Wizard of Earthsea is the first novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle, a fantasy series that has received numerous accolades including the National Book Award and the Nebula Award. The novel tells the story of Ged, a powerful sorcerer who was once known as Sparrowhawk in his youth. In his quest for knowledge…
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I was standing in my yard when I first became aware of a thing called a “book” that I could actually read and enjoy. Books, as my 6th-grade self saw them at the time, were something only girls bothered with, or work my teacher assigned for book reports. That day in my yard, my best friend told me about Wizard of…
- Harry BakerInterview
I can’t remember the first book I read by myself but I remember the last book my Dad read to me which was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin – I remember we had to take a book into school to read but I had already started it with him so I ended up chasing him down the road after he’d left for work to ask what I…
- John L. MonkInterview
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. I read it when I was in 6th grade, and it completely blew my mind. Growing up, reading a book was treated almost like punishment. You had to read it to write a book report so you could do well in school. Or if TV was taken away for some childhood infraction, I was told to…
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